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20 April 2012, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor, IPK Main Conference Room Join us for a book launch for Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India, Atul Kohli's new book. Atul will be joined by New School Professors Sanjay Ruparelia and Sanjay Reddy. India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet, in this 'new' India, grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of India's children are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a seasoned scholar of Indian politics and economics, blames this discrepancy on the narrow nature of the ruling alliance in India that, in its newfound relationship with business, has prioritized economic growth above all other social and political considerations. In fact, according to Kohli, the resulting inequalities have limited the impact of growth on poverty alleviation, and the exclusion of such a significant proportion of Indians from the fruits of rapid economic growth is in turn creating an array of new political problems. This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternative vision of India's rise in the world that its democratic rulers will be forced to come to grips with in the years ahead. 5:00 Wine and Cheese  5:30. Introductions: Author, Discussants, and the Book. David Ludden 5:45. Major arguments in the book. Atul Kohli 6:00. Discussion: Sanjay Ruparelia and Sanjay Reddy, The New School 6:30. Open discussion This event is co-sponsored by South Asia @ NYU This event is open to the public with photo ID.